Legco members returned in 1995 were originally to serve beyond the handover, thereby providing institutional continuity across the reversion of Hong Kong to the PRC.

It has demonstrated impressive institutional continuity; it has not been the subject of serious attacks by the executive.

Wilhelm Miklas was stripped of the powers he'd gained in 1929, but agreed to act as a fig leaf of institutional continuity anyway.

In an era when few senators served a full six-year term, Otis provided badly needed institutional continuity throughout his 25 years on the job.

To a longtime Japanese official like Mr. Fukui, who has worked 40 years at the bank, preserving institutional continuity is a paramount priority.

However, there cannot have actually been any geographical, institutional, economic or personal continuity with the original Academy in the new organizational entity.

Moreover, the magnitude of the challenges that the new department faces will clearly require substantial time and effort, and will take institutional continuity and additional resources to make it fully effective.

Moreover, questions of institutional continuity sometimes make it difficult to determine the true "age" of any institution.

The film delivers a blistering critique of West Germany's military buildup under Konrad Adenauer and its institutional continuity with the Third Reich.

President Prodi, this is your third meeting with this Parliament, a Parliament which is greatly changed but which has an institutional continuity which we must all respect.